Season’s Greetings from UCL🎄 UCL will be closed from 5:30pm on Tuesday 22 Dec 2025 to 9:00am on Monday 5 Jan 2026. Students can access support services during this time. 🔗 More details: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/students/support-and-wellbeing-services/about-us/closure-periods-2025-support-and-services

Join us for this @seeatucl-ssees.bsky.social seminar with Jakup Azemi and @aidanhehir.bsky.social to hear more about Dr Azemi's book 'The Making of Modern Kosovo' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Chaired by @ericgordy.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 January at 6pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Explore migration’s impact on societies and cultures with our open access reading list for #InternationalMigrantsDay. 📚 Free to read and download: uclpress.co.uk/internationa... #OpenAccess #MigrationStudies

Great news! 🎉📚

🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out! 👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications... Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews. Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160

Term ends today, so here are details of SSEES Library's opening hours over the Christmas break. (Please note that we will be CLOSED tomorrow!) You can check the opening hours of all UCL libraries online at: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

It's never too late to return that long overdue library book! 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

As we wrap up another incredible year, we’re proud to look back at the milestones that defined SSEES in 2025 🎉 Read the full article here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Here are our opening hours over the Christmas and New Year break. For other UCL libraries, please check www.ucl.ac.uk/library/usin...

CFP: "Contested Realities: Paradigm Shifts in the SSEES Region," a special issue of the UCL SLOVO postgraduate journal. Submissions from graduate students are welcome by February 1 to <[email protected]>. More information available here: https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/slovo/news/88/

A lovely find in our Russian section today... "Birds in front of the microphone and camera", published 1972, and inscribed by the authors with a dedication to "friends and nature lovers". The book comes with a recording of birdsong - side 1 "Birds of the White Nights"; side 2 "Talking birds". 🐦🦆🦜🐤

Here's a selection of #NewBooks added to the Library's collection recently. As always, check out our display on the Ground Floor of the Library. 📚📚📚

Library Skills training sessions are open for bookings. Find out more and get research support online or in person. https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

🔊 One week until this book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. Join @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social as she unpacks Kazakhstan’s unique path to nationhood. 🗓️ 4 December at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

Understanding copyright is a key part of information and digital literacy. Find out more about our available training to support your study and skills development. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/learning-teaching-support/ucl-copyright-advice/copyright-training

Here's a selection of the #NewBooks we have added to our collections recently. 📚📚📚🙂

Here's a selection of the #NewBooks we have added to our collections recently. 📚📚📚🙂

Great idea. We should put on our own exhibition one day 😁 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are pleased to invite you to this Politics and Sociology event with author @joannalillis.bsky.social. Please join us to hear about her new book 'Silk Mirage' @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. 🗓️ 27 November at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social

Are you an MA or PhD student working on 20th-century European History or Holocaust studies? Join us for a digital skills workshop to discover highlights from our unique archive collections! Sign up now: bit.ly/4naClvi

Why is Kazakhstani nation-building so unusual? Please join us for the book launch of 'What Does it Mean to be Kazakhstani?' (@hurstpublishers.bsky.social) by @dianakudaibergen.bsky.social to find out more. 🗓️ 4 December at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

What does it mean mean to write through war? Please join us for an evening with Ukrainian writer and war reporter Myroslav Laiuk, who will reflect on the challenges of representing violence and suffering. Moderated by @odrekhivska.bsky.social. 🗓️ 14 November at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ buff.ly/WqZKbU6

Improve your library skills and make best use of our resources during your studies. Sign up for a session here: https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

Do check out this *absolutely amazing* volume on Jewish spaces in postwar Poland by UCL @uclhjs.bsky.social and Bartlett graduate Natalia Romik (Warsaw), published yesterday. Big congratulations from a very proud former co-supervisor :-) Open access from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/archite...

Please join us for this SSEES Cinema Research seminar with Dr Alina Legeyda, who will explore Soviet and post-Soviet Russian and Ukrainian films “set in the past but haunted by the present”. 🗓️ 10 November at 5.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @rachelmorley.bsky.social

We were delighted to welcome new undergraduate students at the UCL SSEES social event, where we talked about the library collections 📚and skills training. 1st-year students, join us for the next social on 26 Nov, 3pm in the Masaryk Common Room to explore databases 🔍 for journals, newspapers & more!

We are marking #GreenLibrariesWeek with a small display of books on the nature and environment of Eastern Europe. Do check it out if you are in the Library this week! 🪴🌿♻️📚😊

It's #GreenLibrariesWeek this week - a time to celebrate libraries and all they do to promote sustainability. At UCL SSEES Library we participate in the Green Impact programme, which challenges us to put sustainability at the heart of everything we do. 🌱🪴🌿📗♻️

Join us for a building tour at SSEES every Wednesday between 2–5pm! Explore our facilities and learn more about student life with the help of our dedicated student ambassadors. Book your place: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

There's still time to register for today's book launch of 'Population Ageing: Populism, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Care' @uclpress.bsky.social. Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

Please join us on Wednesday for the book launch of 'Global Responses to Population Ageing: Populism, Pronatalism, and the Politics of Care' @uclpress.bsky.social by Dr Anna Shadrina. 🗓️ 29 October at 6.30pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Open to all: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit... @uclsseeslibrary.bsky.social

Congratulations to Jan Kubik and Richard Mole! Their #OpenAccess book The Anatomy of Right-wing Populism published yesterday. Read and download free at: bit.ly/46I25Ju #Politics #RightWingPopulism #Illiberalism

Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org). Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social. 🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm ➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s

From Slavic Myths to Post-Soviet Graffiti... There's lots to explore in our latest #NewBooks display! 📚📚📚🙂

🔊 One week until the annual Václav Havel European Dialogues, a global series of discussions inspired by Havel’s enduring legacy. Co-organised by the Czech Centre London, SSEES and PIMs. 🗓️ 22 October at 5pm 📍 UCL SSEES ➡️ Register for free: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

The Institute of Education (IOE) Library and Science Library have re-opened with improved study facilities following refurbishments, and improvements have been made to numerous other libraries across campus. Read more here: www.ucl.ac.uk/library/news...

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 has been awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art." www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

UCL Postgraduate Students 📢 There are still spaces available on this week's 'Copyright for Postgraduate Students' online session 👩‍💻 Thursday 9th October 11am - 12:20pm 📆 Have a look and book here 👉 buff.ly/Dn1ZOPP

Sharpen your literature searching skills and understand how to cite and reference your sources. Sign up for our upcoming Library Skills sessions here: https://library-guides.ucl.ac.uk/skills

Make the best use of our libraries and resources. Find out more about our guides and training to develop your library and information literacy skills. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/learning-teaching-support #WelcomeToUCL

UCL Lunch Hour Lecture | How do our brains learn languages? | 16 Oct Join this lecture where Dr. Natalia V. Parker (UCL SSEES) will examine language learning through the eyes of cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics Book your free place now: buff.ly/bHfYXqQ @uclssees.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

We've updated our #NewBooks display in time for the weekend. 📚📚📚Check it out on the Ground Floor of the Library, next to the self-service machine. All books are available for loan. 🙂

Curating in the Crossfire: a 2-day event at the British Library looking at how materials created and shared in times of conflict are selected, collected and preserved. Details and booking here events.bl.uk/events/curat...

🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of The Ukraine Shelf podcast where @oliahercules.bsky.social and Felicity Spector speak with @uilleamblacker.bsky.social and @okhromeychuk.bsky.social on all things food! ☁️ soundcloud.com/european-ins... 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6HZ... #Europe #TheUkraineShelf

Trying to access books, journals or electronic resources in our libraries? Find out more about available guidance here. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/finding-resources #WelcomeToUCL

🚨Attention Londoners! In precisely two weeks I will be giving a talk at @uclssees.bsky.social on the great historiographical challenge of writing Central European history. It is free and open to the public and will be followed by a wine reception so please do join if you’re interested!

Get to know our libraries and find your way around them with a self-guided tour. Find out more here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library/getting-started/self-guided-library-tours

For those in London on 17 Nov 2025: please join us for a book talk at @uclssees.bsky.social. @eglerin.bsky.social and @robertsuits.bsky.social have read the book and will share their comments. Register here: www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

Looking into using the library? Find out about our study spaces, opening hours, borrowing items, membership and more. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/using-library #WelcomeToUCL

Happy #EuropeanDayofLanguages from all of us at UCL SSEES Library! To mark the occasion, we have curated a selection of books to support and inspire your language learning journey. tinyurl.com/ycxdwna3 #EDL2025 #LanguagesOpenHeartsAndMinds #UCLSSEES #LanguageLearning